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ID #44757098
State Maryland
City Rockville
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Kelly
Showed 2022-08-10
Date 2022-08-09
Deadline 2022-10-08
Category Et cetera
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Clinical Data Software Engineer - NIH - Bethesda, MD

Maryland, Rockville, 20850 Rockville USA

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Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking an individual to work as a

Clinical Data Software Engineer at the

National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

This is a long-term contract position which offers: - Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package - Optional health, vision, and dental plans - Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan. - Access to NIH's unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives.

The mission of Informatics is to produce data-driven decisions and accelerate translation through innovative informatics methods and software, and deep domain expertise in informatics and various translational research data types. Integration, curation, and public rendering to support analysis of various types of experimental and curated datasets. The development of custom workflows and new methodologies to help interpret complex, large-scale datasets, including multi-omic and clinical data. Maintenance, and deployment of cheminformatics and bioinformatics workflows/pipelines, web and mobile apps to disseminate our robust methods and data; bioinformatics and cheminformatics collaborative work with non-informaticians.

TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall:
  • Provides technical experience needed to assist in reviewing, updating, analyzing and modifying existing programming systems.
  • Use advanced knowledge in machine learning, statistics, text mining, natural language processing, computational semantics, computer vision, and data science to develop creative solutions to complex real-world problems.
  • Examine analytical problems and pose feasible statistical solutions.
  • Evaluate new analytic methods and software and adapt them if necessary.
  • Work with staff to develop, test and refine novel programming methods, toolkits, and algorithms.
  • Lead the establishment of best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment, using technologies such as Jenkins, Travis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud)
  • Lead the design and implementation of features and expansion of the case reporting tool and explore functionality to accommodate a broader array of diseases, such as cancer and rare conditions, based on FDA prioritization input. This includes coordinating the back-end to support front-end requirements.
  • Encodes, tests, debugs and installs new programs using various programming languages.
  • Develop scientific applications using R, Shiny and/or Python.
  • Install software testing programs on datasets to identify issues and propose solutions.
  • Test and maintain software products to ensure strong functionality and optimization.
  • Develop or utilize new or existing technology to develop dynamic web applications or software tools for bioinformatics application.
  • Develops and schedules data backups, security patches or upgrades, etc.
  • Test and install the software updates.
  • Collaborate with staff to develop database application and tools for supporting bioinformatics and scientific computing research projects.
  • Documents all assignments and creates various reports as needed.
  • Prepare roadmaps, schedules, status reports, plans and recommendations.
  • Generate and run appropriate database queries needed for Quarterly Progress Reports.
  • Maintain and follow SOPs, configuration management, upgrades and availability.
  • Provide status updates through reporting guidelines established by the project manager
  • Writes and maintains program documentation.
  • Prepare roadmaps, schedules, status reports, plans and recommendations.
  • Maintain and follow SOPs, configuration management, upgrades and availability.
  • Design, develop and deploy software for multi-core and high-performance computing systems.
  • Documents programming problems and resolutions for future reference.
  • Troubleshoot scripts and programs to ensure successful use of said scripts and programs.
  • Document and maintain documentation of requirements, code, processes, architecture agreements via code, Github Wiki, application notes, and release notes
  • Provides assistance with planning, building and maintaining applications to meet an end user's needs.
  • Provide support for development of methods in data science.
  • Implement improvements to development activities to speed development of applications, databases, or software tools.
  • Translates and implements UI/UX design and requirements into production-ready code
  • Works closely with UI/UX researcher to inform based on technology capabilities
  • Improve the overall quality of application fundamentals, including tailoring the case report form to certain disease areas. Implement the back-end to support front-end use cases and business processes.
  • Coordinate deployments working with the teams through CI, test and production environments, for each configuration (database and utility combinations) utilizing cloud technologies
  • Support collaboration by attending meetings, understanding requirements, and documenting proposed solutions
  • Troubleshoots any issues or problems and implements appropriate corrective actions.
  • Manage and troubleshoot deployments and image builds.
  • Develop new code and refine/troubleshoot existing code.
  • Troubleshoot scripts and programs to ensure successful use of said scripts and programs.
  • Review high-level requirements and bug reports with stakeholders, iterate to defining requirements, develop implementation, present and refine implementation in order to design, develop, test and deliver bug fixes, change requests, and new features 1
  • Provides guidance and problem resolution for users.
  • Work with staff on applying, extending and/or developing statistical methods to address problems identified by the staff of relevance to the project. 2
  • Evaluates impact of programming modifications.
  • Plan and carry out quality control programs. 4
  • Implement improvements to development activities to speed development of applications, databases, or software tools. 5
  • Implement improvements to operations.
  • Working within the Community Software Development guidelines, utilize Github for code check-ins and reviews, JIRA for requirements documentation, assignment, and testing for specific implementations 3
  • Refines data and formats final product.
  • Work with staff to improve efficiency of the current data processing by creating new programming approaches.
  • Evaluate data quality (accuracy and completeness) associated with the comparison tool/application.

REQUIREMENTS. The contractor must have:

Field of Study
  • Computer Programming and Data Processing

Software
  • Typescript - Python - PostgreSQL - Django - Celery - Redis - AWS EC2, AWS S3 - AWS Simple Email Service - Firebase Cloud Messaging - Travis - Jenkins - Docker - JIRA - Wireframe and prototyping software (Adobe XD, etc) - Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) - Javascript - neo4j - CSS - JAVA8+ - Angular - MariaDB - Junit - monolith (Play!) - SpringBoot - event-driven - Strapi - Swagger - OpenAPI - MySQL - Shiny - Bash - HTML - MongoDB - Oracle

Skills
  • Code management using Github, including working with multiple branches and forks, Reviewing Github merge requests as a feedback loop, Merging code in Github
  • Managing tasks in JIRA, including creating tickets, providing timeline updates to tickets, working with testers in a regular feedback loop to closure
  • Cloud Computing including AWS, Google, etc
  • Documenting design and tests
  • MS Office Suite; creating documentation deliverables such as: presentations, guides, testing plans and reports
  • Requirements tracking
  • Communications skills, both oral and written
  • Data Modeling
  • Database management

PLEASE APPLY ONLINE When you apply, please know a Kelly Government Solutions Recruiter will review your resume and will contact you directly, if your skills and experience match the requirements of this position; a full job description can be made available at that time.

Due to the high volume of inquiries, we regret that we cannot accept phone calls. Even if you aren't contacted for this position, you are still part of our talent network. All Kelly recruiters have access to your profile, which expands your opportunities even further.

As a specialty talent company, Kelly is committed to doing the right thing for our talent and clients. We stand up for equity, inclusion, fair treatment, and opportunity for all as these build the foundation of our Talent Promise. With a focus on safety, value, well-being, investment, and opportunity, Kelly's Talent Promise confirms our commitment to those in search of a better way to work and live and to help discover what's next.

It is obvious things are different than they were just a few months ago. Kelly is at the forefront of ensuring the safety of our employees in this new working environment. Be well and stay strong.

You should know: Your safety matters! Vaccination against COVID-19 may be a requirement for this job in compliance with current client and governmental policies. A Kelly recruiter will confirm and share more details with you during the interview process.

Why Kelly ® Government Solutions?

Looking to connect with premier government agencies or the top 25 federal government contractors? Kelly Government Solutions partners with these organizations to create expert talent solutions that solve the world's most critical challenges. We offer a variety of full-time, project (SOW), seasonal, and surge support opportunities in science, engineering, technology, professional, and administrative support roles. Our experts will connect you to the opportunity that fits your schedule and interests and handle the details of transferring and processing all levels of security clearances. It's just another way we make the job search work for you.

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At Kelly, we're always thinking about what's next and advising job seekers on new ways of working to reach their full potential. In fact, we're a leading advocate for temporary/nontraditional workstyles, because we believe they allow flexibility and tremendous growth opportunities that enable a better way to work and live (plus, did we mention we provide a ton of benefits ?). Connecting great people with great companies is what we do best, and our employment opportunities span a wide variety of workstyles, skill levels, and industries around the world. Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly's Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.

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